moved: house selling
Dec 2nd 2007, 10:45 pm
#31
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Re: moved: house selling
We dropped by £21K although agents were unsure about this move. Assured us price we had was perfectly achievable and below other similar properties. We have a 5 Bed, 3 Recep, Double Integral Garage and double drive for 4 cars - it is in a village location just on the outskirts of a large town. I spent yesterday afternoon starting to pack up all non essential ornaments and depersonalising.
My rant with agent must have worked as had a call for a viewing this morning. Seemed to go pretty well and they need to move fairly quickly (yup, they have sold there place). Fingers crossed. They had driven a hour or so to get here but said that they had about 9 other houses to view today. Heres hoping our hit the mark.
Has anyone put any xmas decs up yet?
My rant with agent must have worked as had a call for a viewing this morning. Seemed to go pretty well and they need to move fairly quickly (yup, they have sold there place). Fingers crossed. They had driven a hour or so to get here but said that they had about 9 other houses to view today. Heres hoping our hit the mark.
Has anyone put any xmas decs up yet?
Dec 3rd 2007, 3:22 am
#32
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Re: moved: house selling
Thanks Teresa,
Unfortunately they decided to go for another house. Well it was a good 10% chance. Got another valuation tomorrow with a view to maybe going multi agent. May start to hang some xmas decs as gotta try and get in the spirit of it for the kids sakes. The kids will enjoy a nice day off school on Thurs when we have our meds
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Unfortunately they decided to go for another house. Well it was a good 10% chance. Got another valuation tomorrow with a view to maybe going multi agent. May start to hang some xmas decs as gotta try and get in the spirit of it for the kids sakes. The kids will enjoy a nice day off school on Thurs when we have our meds
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Dec 18th 2007, 5:36 am
#33
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SOLD - At bloody long last
and with only one week to go before xmas. Can hardly beleive it. Dont really feel in the mood to crack open the champers as weve had to suffer quite a significant drop and i'm still calculating what we'll have left after paying for agent, solicitor, container, doggy fares and our air fares etc. etc.
Oh well! at least I can now relax before xmas and get everything sorted. Just have to hope and pray all goes swimmingly (3 in a chain and were bottom).
Thanks everyone for your guidance (especially Boxerdog) Sacked our agent and since then have had 8 viewings in the last week and a bit. It's amazing what a change in agent can turn up and there even sorting our solicitors quote for us. Well we are paying them to do something after all. How you doing with yours?
Hope to god we get those visas as we would have gone through hell and back for nowt and wouldn't want to pull out of sale.
Oh well! at least I can now relax before xmas and get everything sorted. Just have to hope and pray all goes swimmingly (3 in a chain and were bottom).
Thanks everyone for your guidance (especially Boxerdog) Sacked our agent and since then have had 8 viewings in the last week and a bit. It's amazing what a change in agent can turn up and there even sorting our solicitors quote for us. Well we are paying them to do something after all. How you doing with yours?
Hope to god we get those visas as we would have gone through hell and back for nowt and wouldn't want to pull out of sale.
Dec 18th 2007, 6:59 am
#34
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Re: moved: house selling
Good news Alison. I know its a pain but on the bright side its not as though house prices in the Uk fluctuate like the exchange rate. Its better to have rid (nearly) and move on from here!
We have left ours in the UK on the market and after a drop of £50k (yep you heard right!) its still not sold. Mind you it is a little unusual but we're not holding out any hopes for viewings etc now til next Spring
On the up side it gives us a chance to rent and check out the areas here cos I know what other half and me are like - if we have all that equity in the bank then we gotta buy a house - the money will be burning a hole, so its probably giving us the patience we don't have!!!!
We have left ours in the UK on the market and after a drop of £50k (yep you heard right!) its still not sold. Mind you it is a little unusual but we're not holding out any hopes for viewings etc now til next Spring
On the up side it gives us a chance to rent and check out the areas here cos I know what other half and me are like - if we have all that equity in the bank then we gotta buy a house - the money will be burning a hole, so its probably giving us the patience we don't have!!!!
Dec 18th 2007, 9:17 am
#35
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Re: moved: house selling
We have cut 25k already, i have told the agent to drop another 25k after xmas and we will take an offer 25k less than that. My agent is a good friend of ours who is also watching the house since we are over here already, kind of hard to sack him.
Dec 18th 2007, 6:56 pm
#36
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Re: moved: house selling
All the best. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. It may be xmas but people are still buying and if its priced attractively they may just go for it. My agent put it on at a guide price (as they do in auctions or Scotland) this enabled us to get the needed viewings and a flood of offers, although some were pretty crap. We did hope that it may go to sealed bids but we just couldn't wait any longer. Who knows, if we had waited it out until after xmas we may have had a better offer or it could have got worse.
Dec 19th 2007, 11:28 pm
#37
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Re: moved: house selling
All the best. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. It may be xmas but people are still buying and if its priced attractively they may just go for it. My agent put it on at a guide price (as they do in auctions or Scotland) this enabled us to get the needed viewings and a flood of offers, although some were pretty crap. We did hope that it may go to sealed bids but we just couldn't wait any longer. Who knows, if we had waited it out until after xmas we may have had a better offer or it could have got worse.
Here's hoping for a better house selling new year, good luck everyone
Terese
Dec 20th 2007, 12:56 am
#38
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Re: moved: house selling
We've dropped the asking price once already and after christmas plan to drop again if no interest. all the equity we hoped for for a deposit for a place in canada is slowly disappearing...........
Here's hoping for a better house selling new year, good luck everyone
Terese
Here's hoping for a better house selling new year, good luck everyone
Terese
Dec 21st 2007, 5:42 am
#40
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Re: moved: house selling
Fingers crossed for all of us in the New Year.
It's kinda typical for me, waiting it out for three years during house boom to then be able to go during a slump!
Aah well, am sure we'll all be dancing loads over the next couple of weeks so will deserve visits from the house dancers!
It's great to finally have an offer in but it's like all the steps getting into Canada now, ages to wait and lots of opportunities for it to go wrong. Are we mad?
Think I'm going mad
Kx
It's kinda typical for me, waiting it out for three years during house boom to then be able to go during a slump!
Aah well, am sure we'll all be dancing loads over the next couple of weeks so will deserve visits from the house dancers!
It's great to finally have an offer in but it's like all the steps getting into Canada now, ages to wait and lots of opportunities for it to go wrong. Are we mad?
Think I'm going mad
Kx
Dec 23rd 2007, 3:59 am
#41
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Re: moved: house selling
Fingers crossed for all of us in the New Year.
It's kinda typical for me, waiting it out for three years during house boom to then be able to go during a slump!
Aah well, am sure we'll all be dancing loads over the next couple of weeks so will deserve visits from the house dancers!
It's great to finally have an offer in but it's like all the steps getting into Canada now, ages to wait and lots of opportunities for it to go wrong. Are we mad?
Think I'm going mad
Kx
It's kinda typical for me, waiting it out for three years during house boom to then be able to go during a slump!
Aah well, am sure we'll all be dancing loads over the next couple of weeks so will deserve visits from the house dancers!
It's great to finally have an offer in but it's like all the steps getting into Canada now, ages to wait and lots of opportunities for it to go wrong. Are we mad?
Think I'm going mad
Kx
With two kids and two hulking dogs that won't be too fun. Am hoping we get something January time then we try and tie everything together nicely.Happy Xmas all!!!
